Thursday, February 7, 2013

quilts, my cat, somebody else's dog, and Claudia's grandma...

A lot to talk about today, hmm??? A lot to SEE too!
But first, a blizzard is expected tonight. My food preparations are shown below, but I gotta run to the store and make sure we get plenty of beer...in case it snows and upstate NY has a shortage ;)

FIRSTLY, I was downtown walking Nook last week (Nook is the fuzzy white dog seen in yesterday's post, I walk him for a friend sometimes) and GOT AN IDEA. The first in this new decorating series is below. I scribbled furiously in my pocket notepad with a drawing: make a quilted pattern on a pot, with a glaze that shows texture nicely. More on this tomorrow, but holy CATS this first turned out nicely! And YES, there are times I put all kinds of fancy sh!t together on a piece....

(jar with a dog by Gary Rith)

In other news, my buddy Claudia posts her grandma's blueberry muffin recipe! I HAD JUST bought frozen blubes...and made these (recipe etc below) and used veg margerine and soy milk, but I see these things come out of the oven and I am like "THESE ARE SO PRETTY! I made blueberry muffins like a bakery!!!!!!" Take that Starschmucks....
their taste is amazingly rich and wonderful, yet light and not heavy (of course, using the original recipe's butter could be different). But what huge and lovely muffins!

Speaking of other people's doggies, I had my friend Yogi out to play yesterday...HUGE puppy now!

Spike ...well, what can I say? He thought he was hiding....

FINALLY, I come across another chili recipe...super simple, and recipe below, and Penny helps me make it...
I added all kinds of things, of course, like chipotles, leftover chickpeas, chopped carrot, tofurkey, YUM!
Have a great Thursday and WATCH OUT northeastern US, the sky is falling! or snow at least...

Here in Indiana when we get a severe storm warning the grocery store runs out of milk and toilet paper! We always run in to make sure we have enough beer! Who needs milk? We have no kids. Anyway it always cracks me up, the last time we had a snowfall that snowed us in for longer than a day or two was the BLIZZARD of 1978. No storm warnings here though, it's sunny right now actually.Love your blog, ya know,

I'm definitely in the mood for blueberry muffins. I froze blueberries last summer and they are just asking to become muffins. Will be trying Claudia's Grandmother's recipe this time. Please pass along my thanks.

I thought Georgia was the only place where we cleaned out the grocery stores of milk, beer and bread (I don't know why) whenever the forecast calls for snow. I actually think it's a marketing ploy by the stores;-)